Remorseful US tourist returns stones from Acropolis “stolen many years ago”

February 6, 2018Archeology, CultureComments Off on Remorseful US tourist returns stones from Acropolis “stolen many years ago”524 Views

A most probably American tourist who stole a handful of stones from the ancient site of the Acropolis many years ago, returned them per mail to the Greek National Tourism Organization in New York. The four small stones were put in a plastic bag and had a handwritten note in which the anonymous thief expressed remorse.

“I am sorry. I took these from a trail on the Acropolis in Greece many years ago. Please return them,” the sender wrote without giving a name.

The return of the stolen Acropolis stones was uploaded on Twitter by the director of the Greek National Tourism Organization in USA and Canada, Grigoria Kamateros.

“We are going to hand them over to the General Consulate of Greece in New York,” Kamateros wrote adding that the gesture “brought tears to my eyes.”